Sexueller Zugang Aus Der Ferne

For a relatively ubiquitous practice, the consumption of online porn by individual agents has received relatively little philosophical attention. In this paper, I turn a critical lens onto consumer demand for online pornography: I argue that the choice to consume such media implies complicity with, and contributes to demand for, deeply harmful practices. In light of the prevalence of violence and exploitation in the production of pornography, consumers accept a significant risk that the material they consume is filmed abuse or rape. Accepting this risk by choosing to consume pornography treats others as a means to personal gratification in a way that cannot be ethically justified. I then present a further problem for the consumption of online pornography – whether violent or not – on the ground that sexual access to others through consumption of these media constitutes a form of sexual activity falling short of widely accepted standards for meaningful (morally transformative) consent.